George Carlin Quotes

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

If I stopped having passion, I'd be done.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable.

I want to want to go to work in the morning.

It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

Some people criticise me for not being animated enough, for sitting in stands and not showing any passion. I come down, get involved in a couple of situations and all of a sudden, it's a slightly different angle.

If somebody goes, 'You should go to 135,' my heart's just not into it.

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

I don't have any ambition.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what Garrison Keillor does. The other kind holds people up to public contempt and ridicule -- that's what I do. Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.